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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by beingforthebene »

longitudinal93 wrote: post #142
pwpw wrote: post #95

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed: - No offline downloading on iPad - The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day - Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues - No intro skip

There's a completely acceptable intro skip available as a plugin.

You mean the beta software with many bugs? Not remotely acceptable in my opinion. https://github.com/ConfusedPolarBear/intro-skipper/issues

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by Gareth321 »

stryan wrote: post #132
Gareth321 wrote: post #104

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Also I think there's still no tone mapping, meaning watching HDR content can look washed out on incompatible devices, or those transcoding.

There's hardware accelerated tone-mapping [0], does that work for you? [0] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-ac...

Cool! Very much so!

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by [deleted] »

teawrecks wrote: post #211
soulofmischief wrote: post #194

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I'm not sure that ensuring BSD support is a requirement of well-engineered software. You're welcome to start your own project vs. complaining about Jellyfin, a free and open project. I just wouldn't confuse their product focus with badly engineered software on account of it using a modern language. Anyway, there is Docker; You could spend the rest of your life shaking your fist, or you could just run it via Docker an…

no one is saying bsd support is a requirement, no one is complaining about jellyfin existing for free, no one said it is badly engineered. they're just saying that there's not a good fit for their use case, which sounds like it's the same as mine: running in a truenas jail. so stop getting defensive. you could have just said "there is docker" and saved everyone the passive aggression.

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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by bluGill »

teawrecks wrote: post #211
soulofmischief wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure that ensuring BSD support is a requirement of well-engineered software. You're welcome to start your own project vs. complaining about Jellyfin, a free and open project. I just wouldn't confuse their product focus with badly engineered software on account of it using a modern language. Anyway, there is Docker; You could spend the rest of your life shaking your fist, or you could just run it via Docker an…

no one is saying bsd support is a requirement, no one is complaining about jellyfin existing for free, no one said it is badly engineered. they're just saying that there's not a good fit for their use case, which sounds like it's the same as mine: running in a truenas jail. so stop getting defensive. you could have just said "there is docker" and saved everyone the passive aggression.

If you google there is a jellyfin on truenas install that works well.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

skrrtww wrote: post #174

Trying to move away from Plex on my Apple TV, I installed Jellyfin. Server-side, installation was painless. The Swiftfin Apple TV client, however, is basically unusable. It only allows you to connect to a server instance via unencrypted http:// , including user and password. Indexing is buggy (it seems to think I don't have any TV shows), metadata lookup seems almost nonexistent, with base filenames everywhere and no…

> It only allows you to connect to a server instance via unencrypted http://

Hmm, no, it doesn’t. No idea why you believe that. It works perfectly fine with https url.

I don’t really understand the rest of your comment as indexing and metadata look ups are done by the server and not the client. Plus Swiftfin uses VLC under the hood so it shouldn’t have issue with playback.

Are you using the fairly recent stable version or are you experience on an older development version? Swiftfin has been officially available for only a month.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostmsu »

https443 wrote: post #51
lostmsu wrote: post #39

I tried it, but ended up just using file shares. The biggest issue for me is that it does not automatically recognize many movies by their short names instead linking to some obscure thing with a similar name. For instance, since files can not have colon in the name, and many movies do, it gets confused about the title. Another similar issue is about shows and how it recognizes their folder and file structures. In th…

If you follow their naming conventions it works great: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/ ... but I admit that most people don't want to do that.

Yeah, I don't have time to rename every single one of 100+ episodes.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by Teslazar »

Here's my personal experience switching from Plex to Jellyfin. Everyone's needs are different, but, for me, Jellyfin has been a much better experience.

I used Plex for years and always hated it. It didn't let me customize the home screen in the way I wanted, so there was always a bunch of junk on there that I didn't want and couldn't remove. It also ran very slow on my Samsung TV (1), starting up slowly and responding to the press of a button after about a full second (it had done this for a long time through multiple versions of the app and factory resetting the TV without any improvement; also, the TV is only a few years old).

I got frustrated enough to finally switch to Jellyfin about 4 months ago. It was a pain to get the app installed on my TV (the app isn't in the TV's app library, so it needs to be installed as if you're a dev), but once I got it working it works well. The app starts up faster than the Plex app and is very responsive to button presses.

Back when I was using Plex, I really wanted to customize the home screen to remove certain components and re-order what appears and spent a lot of time reading over settings/customization stuff which never actually let me do what I wanted. With Jellyfin, I simply went to settings > home and the intuitive options there let me do exactly what I wanted to do in seconds.

I can't think of any major issues I've had with Jellyfin, but here are a couple of thoughts. With Jellyfin I needed to create separate folders for what what Plex called collections and add them as libraries instead of collections. At first, I thought this was a negative but ended up deciding it didn't really matter as it works fine. I had a series of videos that wouldn't play properly on Jellyfin until I used ffmpeg to strip out the extra subtitle tracks (they had 42!), but never tested them on Plex so not sure if Plex would have handled them.

(1) I will never buy another Samsung TV, but that's a rant for another post. I considered buying an Nvidia Shield just to fix some issues with the TV, but probably won't bother now that Jellyfin is working well.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by j1elo »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #158
snapplebobapple wrote: post #58

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You can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.

I use the full stack and all very grateful for the products. The remaining annoyances are: - lack of multi language support - there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly) - I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it n…

Yeah I was initially surprised when learning about the *arr stack for the first time, as my intuition was very insistently telling me: "I must be gettint it wrong, these ought to be all a single service!!"

They all definitely feel like small parts of a single package, don't look like they merit being their own thing. But it's not my thing, so what do I know.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by Timon3 »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #170
Timon3 wrote: post #141

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> When you’re setting up a new server, it shows you a bunch of default Libraries for their own media. Unselecting them then should remove them from your list. It's been a while since I last tried setting it up, but I can't remember anything during the setup talking about external streaming libraries. I tried setting it up in the way I expected it to work based on my previous knowledge. > If you don’t know which libra…

“Libraries” is what Plex calls “collections” I think Emby/Jellyfin use the same terminology, but don’t quote me on that. After you create a Plex instance, you still need to go and create a “Movies” library, a “TV Shows” library, maybe a “Music” library, an “Audiobooks” Library and so on. Those are the ones that show on the left panel in the Web UI, TV App etc. It’s how you manage your media in general During initial…

I would have loved to go through the setup again and see where exactly I got confused. For this purpose I uninstalled Plex and re-installed it. Sadly for the last 20 minutes it only shows:

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